When you’re used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that’s the first influence on my style.
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
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Birth: | 12th May, 1963 |
Nationality: | South African |
Profession: | Actor, Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
Gavin Hood was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a South African film director, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for writing and directing the Academy Award-winning Foreign Language Film Tsotsi. He also directed the films X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Ender's Game. He directed his first commercial short film, The Storekeeper. He directed other films include: A Reasonable Man, In Desert and Wilderness, Rendition, and Eye in the Sky. He produced only one film include: A Reasonable Man. He has written several films include: A Reasonable Man, In Desert and Wilderness, and Ender's Game. His role in several films include: Eye in the Sky, A Reasonable Man, American Kickboxer, and King Solomon's Mines.
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